The Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki has said that his erstwhile godfather and National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is afraid of educated people because he is uneducated.
He stated this on Tuesday in a chat with State House correspondents after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari.
Obaseki also revealed that he has quit the All Progressives Congress (APC) and would be announcing the platform on which he would be seeking re-election shortly.
“You are afraid of people who are educated because you didn’t go to school. You are afraid of people who have something to offer because all he knows how to offer is brigandage, crisis. So for us, Nigeria has to move forward beyond some of the characters who are currently overseeing our political polity and they are scared.
“They are scared that when people of substance, when people who are proven, when people who have succeeded in other aspects of life come into politics, they will be history. For me, this fight is not about grabbing political power, it’s not about me, it’s not about trying to prove a sense of importance, no. It’s for us, 21 years into this Republic, democracy must mature, but as democracy is maturing, we now need to begin to show that politics cannot and should not be the preserve of a certain character of people.
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“People of accomplishment, people of knowledge, people of character must also be accommodated in the political space. You don’t have to be a ruffian to be a politician, you don’t have to be a brigand to be a politician, you don’t have to be a thief to be a politician,” Obaseki said.
Asked if he could win re-election on the platform of another political party, Obaseki noted, “I am sure if you have scanned the environment, you have scanned the media, you have scanned social media, the reaction from people across the world, particularly Edos at home and in the Diaspora, has for me has been unbelievable. They have said to me, ‘wherever you go, we go’.”